With Lucy as the protagonist, the film didn’t shy away from showing this rhetoric. Refreshingly (and perhaps unexpectedly), the film didn’t feel the need to act unbiased when it comes to capital punishment: this film, as many queer romantic dramas do, hones in on the humanity in people, and there is more humanity entrenched in anti-death penalty rhetoric. And, of course, the subject matter is specifically US-based: the country is one of only fourteen to have capital punishment currently enshrined in law, and it has the highest encarceration rate in the world, with thousands of prisoners currently on death row. The aesthetic is well established as depressed Americana, combining a lukewarm sepia, yellowing interior design, mundane suburbia, sparse outdoor spaces and RV parks scattered with litter. My Days of Mercy has a distinctly American outlook. A sexual and romantic relationship thus develops as they try to grapple with the shocking differences in each views politics, the world, and the pursuit of forgiveness and justice.īritney Line Time: “ Just want you to make me move / Like it ain’t a choice for you, like you got a job to do / Just want you to raise my roof / Something sensational / And make me ooh, ooh, ooh, ohh” Though they live in different states, Lucy in Ohio and Mercy in Illinois, the two have an undeniable spark.
At a protest outside a jail where an execution is taking place, Lucy meets Mercy (Kate Mara), an activist on the other side of the debate, whose father’s best friend and partner was murdered. In the film, they play Lucy, who, after her father is accused of first-degree murder in the US, becomes an anti-death penalty activist. Page is really the standout performance in My Days of Mercy (2017, Tali Shalom Ezer). Lucy stares out a train window, playing with a hair tie given to her by Mercy And yet, this film ー released in 2017, so after the first coming out but before the second ー is one of many examples to show us that perhaps we should put as much focus on what they do as on what they say what they do is act, and they do it pretty damn well.Ī note on pronouns: Page uses he/him or they/them, but their character Lucy uses she/her, hence the differing pronouns when referring to actor (they) and character (she). Two such announcements seem to have dominated media discourse when it comes to this Canadian actor and producer. It’s been over four months since Elliot Page came out as trans, and over seven years since they first came out as gay.
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